I believe the biggest pain is dealing with initrd.gz - not much I can do there, besides providing premade versions and a utility to modify it more easily (on the forum somewhere, named "Edit-Initrd" - I believe it still works with 4.x? Haven't used it in a long time.).

The modifications to the boot scrips are about as simple as I can figure out how to do. Unless you know of a way to make Pebble magically know when it should drop back to the CLI? Maybe replacing the "read" and "exit" commands with wrappers that first communicate with Pebble? Seems like that would be a little iffy, but if it worked it would be pretty neat.

Or do you mean setting up the themes is too complicated? I'm sure there's plenty of room for improvement there._________________Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib

Haven't used Wary, so I don't know for sure, but it shouldn't be too hard to manage. You are correct about the kernel modules, so you'd have to either compile or obtain versions that match your kernel. Barry used to make these available as part of the unleashed package for the version of Puppy in question. I think he still does this in the woof package, but I'm not sure.

You'd also have to manually go through the init scripts to add the various commands to have it start, stop, etc.

I'm intending to make a new version of this someday. One of the companies I'm working with uses a heavily modified Puppy, and they're interested in a more advanced splash program than the current version. That's pretty low priority though. It's even lower priority in my own list of personal projects that need to be worked on. So I probably won't get around to it for a long time.

As for alternatives, I think there is one named "bootsplash". Any alternative will probably also require the same kernel modules though, and probably also editing of the bootscripts to manage it (but I could be wrong, I haven't looked very closely at other systems)._________________Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib

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